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Friday, June 2, 2017

"It should be the long-term goal of every MSA to
Islamicize the politics of their respective university"

"It should be the long-term
goal of every MSA [Muslim Students Association] to Islamicize the
politics of their respective university ... the politicization of the
MSA means to make the MSA more of a force on internal campus politics.
The MSA needs to be a more 'in-your-face' association." — Hussein
Hamdani, a lawyer who served as an adviser on Muslim issues and security
for the Canadian government.

Several alumni of the MSA have gone on to become leading figures
in Islamist groups. These include infamous al Qaeda recruiter Anwar al
Awlaki, Osama bin Laden funder Ahmed Sayed Khadr, ISIS propagandist John
"Yahya" Maguire and Canada's first suicide bomber, "Smiling Jihadi"
Salma Ashrafi.

What they have in common (whether members of ISIS, al Qaeda,
Jamaat e Isami, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf or others) is ideology often
rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood -- as findings of a 2015 U.K.
government review on the organization revealed.

In August 2014, ISIS tried to secure the release from a U.S. federal
prison of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui -- a Pakistani neuroscientist educated in
the United States -- formerly known as the "most wanted woman alive,"
but now referred to as "Lady al Qaeda", by exchanging her for American
war correspondent James Foley, who was abducted in 2012 in Syria. When
the proposed swap failed, Foley was beheaded in a gruesome propaganda
video produced and released by his captors, while Siddiqui remained in
jail serving an 86-year sentence.

Part
of an FBI "seeking information" handout on Aafia Siddiqui -- formerly
known as the "most wanted woman alive." (Image source: FBI/Getty Images)

ISIS also offered to exchange Siddiqui
for a 26-year-old American woman kidnapped in Syria while working with
humanitarian aid groups. Two years earlier, the Taliban had tried to
make a similar deal, offering to release U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for Siddiqui. These efforts speak volumes about Siddiqui's profile and importance in Islamist circles.

During the 1995-6 academic year, Siddiqui wrote three sections of the Muslim Students Association "Starter's Guide"
-- "Starting and Continuing a Regular Dawah [Islamic proselytizing]
Table", "10 Characteristics of an MSA Table" and "Planning A Lecture" --
providing ideas on how successfully to infiltrate North American
campuses.

The MSA of the United States and Canada was established in January 1963 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus.
Since its inception, the MSA has emerged as the leading and most
influential Islamist student organization in North America -- with nearly 600 MSA chapters in the United States and Canada today.

The first edition of the MSA Starter's Guide: A Guide on How to Run a Successful MSA
was released in 1996. A subsection on "Islamization of Campus Politics
and the Politicization of The MSA," written by Hussein Hamdani, a lawyer
who served as an adviser on Muslim issues and security for the Canadian
government, states:

"It should be the long-term goal of every MSA to
Islamicize the politics of their respective university ... the
politicization of the MSA means to make the MSA more of a force on
internal campus politics. The MSA needs to be a more 'in-your-face'
association."

In early 2015, Canadian Minister of Public Safety Steven Blaney suspended Hamdani
from the Cross-Cultural Roundtable on National Security. No reason was
given for the suspension, but Hamdani claimed it had been politically
motivated -- related to his support for Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party.
The French-language Canadian network TVA suggested, however, that
the suspension was actually due to activities in which Hamdani had
engaged as a university student, and radical organizations with which he
was associated. During the 1998-9 academic year, Hamdani was president
of the Muslim Students Association at the University of Western Ontario;
in 1995, he was treasurer of the McMaster University branch of the MSA.

What they have in common (whether members of ISIS, al Qaeda, Jamaat e Isami, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf or others) is ideology often rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood -- as findings of a 2015 U.K. government review on the organization revealed.

Siddiqui's involvement in the MSA, her subsequent literal and
figurative marriage to al Qaeda and her attempted release by ISIS,
perfectly illustrate this ideological connection and path.

Thomas Quiggin,

Thomas Quiggin, a court qualified expert on terrorism and practical intelligence, is based in Canada.Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10423/muslim-brotherhood-connection Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the author